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Jacki Silbermann is a student at Harvard Law School and a member of the Labor and Employment Lab.

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part Three

Oct 2, 2020 Jacki Silbermann

This is the final post in a series of three. Read part one and part two. Building on two previous posts, which reviewed some of the issues at the center of recent and ongoing collective action in the tech, the present legal landscape and three possible normative justifications for employee voice in employer business decisions […]

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part Two

Oct 1, 2020 Jacki Silbermann

This is the second post in a series of three. Read part one and check back tomorrow for part three. Following part one’s brief overview of some of the issues at the center of recent and ongoing collective action in the tech sector as well as the present legal landscape, this second post examines three […]

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part One

Sep 30, 2020 Jacki Silbermann

This is the first post in a series of three. Check back tomorrow and Friday for part two and part three. It’s a fraught time for tech workers. The tech sector, which for decades has largely remained outside the realm of organized labor, has emerged over the past few years as a locus for collective […]

Tips and Benefits: Lessons from Israeli Law for the COVID Era

Apr 27, 2020 Jacki Silbermann

For years tipping has been widely criticized for its detrimental effects on workers, from wage insecurity to the racist and sexist dynamics that the practice can exacerbate. Tipping generates another problem, made salient by the present COVID-19 pandemic: It often undercuts wage-based benefits for workers, including unemployment compensation. Over 26 million unemployment claims have been […]

They’re Looking Out for the Internet. But Who’s Looking Out for Them?

Apr 8, 2020 Jacki Silbermann

Ensuring that internet searches and social networking feeds remain free of graphic violence and explicit sexual content is no easy task. Companies like Facebook, Google and YouTube rely on thousands of content moderators in the U.S. and abroad to remove illegal or otherwise unacceptable content from their internet platforms every day. While much of the […]

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OnLabor is a blog devoted to workers, unions, and their politics. We interpret our subject broadly to include the current crisis in the traditional union movement (why union decline is happening and what it means for our society); the new and contested forms of worker organization that are filling the labor union gap; how work ought to be structured and managed; how workers ought to be represented and compensated; and the appropriate role of government — all three branches — in each of these issues.

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Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part Three

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part Two

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part One

Tips and Benefits: Lessons from Israeli Law for the COVID Era

They’re Looking Out for the Internet. But Who’s Looking Out for Them?